Targeting FBI Budget Makes Us More Vulnerable on Cyber
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE / OPINION: The House Appropriations Committee is proposing significant cuts to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) budget, a move at odds with […] More
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Iranian-backed attacks on Albania highlights need for Cyber Capacity Building
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — Albania, a NATO member state, cut diplomatic ties with Iran earlier this month after blaming Tehran for a cyberattack against Albanian government […] More
Money and Partnerships Matter in Cybersecurity
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE – The White House’s recent announcement of a Strategic High-Level Dialogue on Technology with Israel and the Jerusalem U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Joint Declaration […] More
The Days of Responsible Cybersecurity are Finally Here
OPINION — The days of cyber negligence are numbered. While nobody can expect perfect cybersecurity, a vast supermajority of the painful breaches we learn about […] More
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When Corporate Interests and International Cyber Agreements Collide
OPINION — The Paris Call for Trust and Stability in Cyberspace is an initiative launched by French President Emmanuel Macron during the 2018 UNESCO’s Internet […] More
The 2021 Cyber Threat Will Drive Stronger Alliances
Cipher Brief Expert and former Secretary for Homeland Security Michael Chertoff is Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of the Chertoff Group. He served as Secretary of […] More
The UK’s Next Steps on Cybersecurity
Conrad Prince served as the Director General for Operations and Deputy Director of GCHQ from 2008 – 2015. In those roles he led GCHQ’s intelligence […] More
Mitigating Cyber Risk at Home
Cipher Brief Expert Daniel N. Hoffman is a retired clandestine services officer and former Chief of Station with the Central Intelligence Agency. His combined 30 years of government service […] More
Most Tools Failed to Detect the SolarWinds Malware
Rob Knake is the Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Knake served from 2011 to 2015 as director for cybersecurity policy at the […] More
Going Undercover to Catch Cybercriminals
Our friends at The Record talked recently with Richard LaTulip, a former Secret Service Special Agent who spent time undercover to better understand the motivations and […] More
How Can the U.S. Rebuild After Shocking Series of Cyber Breaches
President-Elect Joe Biden’s incoming national security adviser Jake Sullivan told NPR this week that the Defense Department hasn’t granted a meeting to the Biden transition […] More
The Russians Have Issued a Wake Up Call
Weeks after a massive cyber breach of U.S. government agencies and private sector companies was publicly announced, there is still not a clear response from […] More
Lessons I Learned as the Head of Israel’s National CERT
Lavy Shtokhamer is the former head of Israel’s National CERT and Executive Director at the Israel National Cyber Directorate. He previously founded the Financial Cyber […] More
Reimagining our Domestic Cyber Defense Posture
OPINION — The SolarWinds breach, targeting several government agencies and private sector entities, was a stunning feat carried out by a nation-state actor purported to […] More
A Consequential Attack on America
As Washington continues to investigate the true depth of what experts are describing as one of the most damaging cyberattacks in U.S. history, both government […] More
A Huge Win for Stronger Public-Private Cybersecurity
Patrick D. Gaul is the Executive Director of the National Technology Security Coalition (NTSC), a non-profit, non-partisan, industry-agnostic organization focused on uniting both public and […] More
Cybersecurity Skates Into Its Hockey Stick Moment
Philip Reitinger is the President and CEO of the Global Cyber Alliance. You can follow him on Twitter @CarpeDiemCyber OPINION — “Black Tuesday” for cybersecurity came on November […] More
What Happens if I Pay the Ransom?
The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) recently issued an advisory, reminding businesses that if they pay ransom to cyber hackers, […] More
Harry Potter Fans: If Cyber were a Basilisk, It’s the Pipes
It is no secret that Hermione revealed that the basilisk traveled via the pipes in the second installment of the Harry Potter series. When I […] More